Episode #230 ... Hope as an Existentialism (Ernst Bloch)

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  So taking in ideas that fall under the category of existentialism basically guarantees you're going to come across certain terminology.

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  What I mean is there's words commonly thrown around in this space when trying to describe the human condition and all the bad stuff that's possible there.

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  Words like despair or anxiety, nausea, alienation.

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  There's many more of these and you've no doubt heard all these words before.

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  And what you also may have heard is that when it comes to a lot of these philosophers that fall under the label of existentialism,

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  common way you'll hear their work described is that they're framing this piece of existence in terms of a lack or a negation.

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  And what's meant when someone says this is that when it comes to these negative feelings we experience,

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  it could describe with despair,

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  nausea and the like,

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  we feel these things

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  because there's something lacking that's causing these experiences.

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  Many examples of this I could give.

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  Maybe if you're Sartre,

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